 | 1908 - 376 pages
...artist-engineers. Few men have put this thought in a more striking way than William Ellery Channing. Remember it. "To live content with small means; to seek elegance...than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages with open... | |
 | 1906 - 794 pages
...This is God's law, as old as the world. No local law can touch it. CHANNING, WILLIAM HENRY. XIII, 595. To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather then fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes... | |
 | 1900 - 368 pages
...carefully after the financial interests of the people than will state boards or text-book commissions. To live content with small means. To seek elegance...bear all cheerfully, do all bravely. Await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This... | |
 | Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 pages
...thing that you might be, the thing that God gave you a chance to be." PHILLIPS BROOKS. JANUARY 6 " To live content with small means ; to seek elegance...gently, act frankly ; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart ; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1908 - 236 pages
...in striving to define his ideal wrote that his endeavor was, " to seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich." In characterizing the quiet of Charles Lamb, Walter Pater uses this method with greater elaboration:... | |
 | 1909 - 136 pages
...and to such a philosophy this world will give up all the empty joy it has. DAVID SWING. MY SYMPHONY To live content with small means ; to seek elegance...gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart ; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry... | |
 | 1909 - 136 pages
...love—and to such a philosophy this world will give up all the empty joy it has. MY SYMPHONY DAVID SWING. To live content with small means; to seek elegance...gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 936 pages
...such a moment I but ask That you'll remember me. Balfes Opera, "The Bohemian CirL' CHANNING'S SYMPHONY To live content with small means; to seek elegance...gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry... | |
 | 1904 - 484 pages
...yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Ralph Waldo Emerson. To live content with small means — to seek elegance...gently, act frankly — to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart — to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,' await occasions, hurry... | |
 | William Wallace Stetson - 1911 - 252 pages
...soon as we do as well as we know, we shall breed children who will live up to Channing's high ideal : To live content with small means; to seek elegance...respectable ; and wealthy, not rich ; to study hard, think quickly, talk gently, act frankly ; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open hearts... | |
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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to... 
